Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 27 /Trend/
Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has called on British officials to amend their posture towards the Islamic Republic in accordance with current realities within the country, Press TV reported referring to Fars news agency.
Salehi's remarks came as the new British Ambassador to Tehran, Dominick John Chilcott, submitted his credentials to the Iranian minister on Wednesday.
During the meeting, Salehi pointed to relations between Tehran and London during recent years and emphasized on the urgent need for the British government to modify their hostile attitude toward Iran based on the existing realities in the Islamic Republic.
Chilcott, for his part, said he has a mission to reflect realities in Iran to the British government regardless of views publicized by media sources.
Chilcott replaced Simon Gass, who has been transferred to another diplomatic service.
Earlier in January, a group of Iranian lawmakers announced plans to set up a special fraction at the parliament tasked with pursuing initiatives to cut all relations with the British government, following remarks made by the former British ambassador to Iran Simon Gass for criticizing the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic.
"The lawyers, journalists, NGO members experience such pressure nowhere in the world as in Iran," the ambassador said. He also drew attention to numerous cases of arrests of human rights defenders in Iran.
Gass was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry, where the inadmissibility of interfering in the internal affairs of Iran was pointed out to him.
Edited by T.Konyayeva.